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I'm not visually impaired, but have run into the exact same issue of missing keyboard shortcuts for dev tools. There are some, but they seem pretty random. I thought devs would work more with shortcuts, but apparently not.

However, the network inspector in Firefox opens with Ctrl+Shift+E for me (Ubuntu with Unity).

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Right, but opening from the keyboard is only a tiny fraction of what is needed. If I tab around on the display, I get a bunch of buttons that are likely column headers (I.e. "Status", "Transferred", etc.) but I never reach a list of actual requests through which I can arrow. I press Space on a button labeled "Start performance analysis" which immediately plunks focus into a text field from which I can't seem to escape. The entire developer tools interface is littered with these sorts of inconsistencies.

The HTML inspector is similar. I can pull up a tree of elements, but sometimes I can expand tree levels from the keyboard and sometimes I can't. I've taken to using the context menu to copy an element's inner HTML into a text editor, then inspecting it that way. Often, clicking Inspect Element from the context menu doesn't open the inspector with keyboard focus on the element I'm inspecting, either, which is a massive pain when I'm trying to tell a developer what is needed to make a site accessible. So, IOW, I can't even file actionable bug reports for web apps without putting forth lots of effort to even identify the element that is at fault.

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